{"id":80065,"date":"2025-01-30T12:03:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T17:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=80065"},"modified":"2025-01-30T12:03:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T17:03:33","slug":"1145633_ford-megazilla-2-0-v-8-crate-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=80065","title":{"rendered":"Ford supercharges the Megazilla V-8 to over 1,000 hp"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Ford has revealed the Megazilla 2.0, a supercharged 7.3-liter V-8 rated at over 1,000 hp<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ford said the engine is designed for competition use<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>For street use, Ford has a new supercharged 5.0-liter V-8 rated at over 800 hp<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ford has taken its already formidable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1141710_ford-megazilla-v-8-price\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Megazilla V-8 crate engine<\/a> to the next level with the introduction of the supercharged Megazilla 2.0.<\/p>\n<p>Unveiled on Thursday at Ford&#8217;s second annual motorsports season launch event held in Charlotte, North Carolina, the new engine is built for extreme performance, delivering enough grunt to <strong>rival hypercar powerplants<\/strong> as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1137686_dodge-hellephant-hurricrate-crate-engines-revealed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mopar\u2019s Hellephant crate engine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"static-marker-video-player-primis\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Like its predecessor, the Megazilla 2.0 is based on Ford\u2019s original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1124338_ford-super-duty-7-3-hp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Godzilla 7.3-liter V-8<\/a>, but it benefits from a host of high-performance upgrades. It retains all the race-ready internals of the original Megazilla, including <strong>forged pistons and connecting rods<\/strong>, a steel crankshaft, ported and polished cylinder heads, and upgraded valve springs, and adds forced induction.<br \/><strong><br \/><\/strong>The forced induction comes in the form of a <strong>Gen 6 3.0-liter Whipple supercharger<\/strong>. The original Megazilla develops approximately 615 hp, but the addition of the supercharger boosts output of the Megazilla 2.0 to over 1,000 hp, Ford said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_wrapper first_wrapper\" readability=\"7\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" name=\"tccimg_100955459_m\" title=\"Ford Megazilla 2.0 crate engine\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAD\/ACwAAAAAAQABAAACADs=\" alt=\"Ford Megazilla 2.0 crate engine\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"first_image lazy\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"682\" data-url=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/ford-megazilla-2-0-crate-engine_100955459_l.webp\" data-src-h=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/hug\/ford-megazilla-2-0-crate-engine_100955459_h.webp\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/ford-megazilla-2-0-crate-engine_100955459_l.webp\" data-src-l=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/ford-megazilla-2-0-crate-engine_100955459_l.webp\" data-src-m=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/med\/ford-megazilla-2-0-crate-engine_100955459_m.webp\" data-src-s=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/sml\/ford-megazilla-2-0-crate-engine_100955459_s.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ford Megazilla 2.0 crate engine<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ford hasn&#8217;t mentioned the weight, but the naturally aspirated Megazilla <strong>weighs around 673 pounds<\/strong>, and the addition of a supercharger will only add to that figure.<\/p>\n<p>Ford said the Megazilla 2.0 was designed for competition use, like in desert racing trucks, drag racing builds, and other high-performance applications away from the road. For street builds, Ford introduced a new <strong>supercharged Coyote 5.0-liter V-8<\/strong> crate engine on Thursday. The Coyote is found in multiple Ford products, and owners with the engine already installed can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1142600_2024-ford-mustang-gt-dark-horse-supercharger-price\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">purchase the supercharger<\/a> as a standalone upgrade from Ford.<\/p>\n<p>The new supercharged crate engine uses the particular Coyote V-8 found in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1140364_2024-ford-mustang-dark-horse-test-drive-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mustang Dark Horse<\/a>, which is rated at 500 hp. With the added supercharger, Ford estimates the engine will <strong>deliver over 800 hp<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Both crate engines will be available in the <strong>fourth quarter of 2025<\/strong> from Ford dealerships and the Ford Performance parts catalog. Pricing information will be announced closer to the market launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford has revealed the Megazilla 2.0, a supercharged 7.3-liter V-8 rated at over 1,000 hp Ford said the engine is designed for competition use For street use, Ford has a new supercharged 5.0-liter V-8 rated at over 800 hp Ford has taken its already formidable Megazilla V-8 crate engine to the next level with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design-concepts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}